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Truckee is an incorporated town in Nevada County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census , the population was 16,180, reflecting an increase of 2,316 from the 13,864 counted in the 2000 Census .
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Once the Central Pacific Railroad was completed through Truckee in 1869, it became one of the city's main economic drivers; the Commercial Row district's businesses mainly catered to workers and travelers on the railroad. The Brickelltown district, meanwhile, housed and served workers in Truckee's other main industry, lumber.
The Kruger House (or C.B. White House) is a historic building located at 10292 Donner Pass Road, in Truckee, Nevada County, northern California.. The mansion was built in 1873–1874 by W. H. Kruger, who was then a partner in the Truckee Lumber Company.
Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
Tahoe Donner Homeowners Association; Location: Truckee, California: Vertical: 600 ft (180 m) Top elevation: 7,350 ft (2,240 m) Base elevation: 6,750 ft (2,060 m)
Drug intoxication is suspected in the death of a 32-year-old festivalgoer at Burning Man, where some 70,000 attendees were trapped in the remote Black Rock Desert in Nevada over the weekend due to ...
Tahoe City is located on the shore of Lake Tahoe, at the outlet of the Truckee River. The site was surveyed in 1863, and Tahoe House was built in 1864. [2] The Tahoe post office opened in 1871, closed for a period in 1896, and changed its name to Tahoe City in 1949. [2] The ZIP Code is 96145.